I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

The first day of the rest of my life.

Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious.

The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.

That perfect day, that magic moment that we're all waiting for, is right now.

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.